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Stablecoins: The Quiet Revolution South Africa Can’t Ignore

02 February at 11:37 AM, via Tech Financials

Imagine walking into your local store and paying with a cryptocurrency that always equals one rand — no wild swings, no speculation, just self‑sovereign certainty. A digital token that settles faster than today’s banking rails and at a fraction of the cost. That’s the promise of stablecoins — digital assets built for stability in a […]

Paarl Mall Gets R270M Mega Upgrad

02 February at 09:29 AM, via Tech Financials

Growthpoint Properties has commenced a major R270 million redevelopment of Paarl Mall in the Western Cape, set to expand its gross lettable area to 44,474m². “Paarl Mall’s extensive upgrade and extension project is the result of a deliberate strategy to optimise its retail mix and elevate the shopper experience,” says Gavin Jones, Growthpoint Properties Head […]

Paarl Mall Gets R270M Mega Upgrade

02 February at 09:29 AM, via Tech Financials

Growthpoint Properties has commenced a major R270 million redevelopment of Paarl Mall in the Western Cape, set to expand its gross lettable area to 44,474m². “Paarl Mall’s extensive upgrade and extension project is the result of a deliberate strategy to optimise its retail mix and elevate the shopper experience,” says Gavin Jones, Growthpoint Properties Head […]

What’s Stopping Sunny South Africa’s Solar Industry?

02 February at 09:19 AM, via Tech Financials

What’s stopping sunny South Africa’s solar industry? Court case sheds light on the wider problem Wikus Kruger, University of Cape Town A South African solar manufacturer, ARTsolar, is taking the government and several renewable energy developers to court. The case focuses on local content rules for renewable energy projects. ARTsolar says it invested in new manufacturing […]

Can you solve it? The numbers all go to 11

02 February at 09:10 AM, via The Guardian

Puzzles one louder than ten

It’s two decimal digits long, it’s prime, it’s a palindrome and it’s the number of players in a football team.

Let’s hear it for “legs” eleven!

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Starwatch: Orion the hunter dominates the February night sky

02 February at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Straddling the celestial equator, the constellation is visible in both hemispheres

Orion, the hunter, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky, is well placed for observation from the northern hemisphere during February. Straddling the celestial equator – the projection of Earth’s equator on to the night sky – the constellation is also visible from the southern...

Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention

02 February at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it

It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those are just the ones that register. Subconsciously, we’re constantly sifting through a barrage of...

‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life

01 February at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis

We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available,...

Catch a falling star: cosmic dust may reveal how life began, and a Sydney lab is making it from scratch

01 February at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do

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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, so to speak: thousands of tonnes of cosmic dust bombard the Earth each...

Ex-British army chief calls on ministers to back MDMA-assisted therapy for veterans

01 February at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Nick Carter says easing controls on MDMA will allow drug to be used as alternative treatment for those with PTSD

A former head of the British military is calling for the government to ease restrictions on the party drug MDMA so that it can be tested more cheaply as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Sir Nick Carter, who was chief of the defence staff until...

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